Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

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Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

1. Yammy YZF-r15s - engine refinement, mileage, good presence, dc electronics.

2. Hornet 160r - engine refinement, mileage, will suit your height and built, comfortable pillion seat, can be used as a tourer decent looks.

3. Fz FI - engine refinement, mileage, will suit your height and built, comfortable pillion seat, can be used as a tourer, decent looks, but at some point with pillion the bike will feel.underpowered.

4. Fazer FI.. Same as FZ only added thing is bikini fairing and windshield. Hence less windblast.

5. SZRr - although it has everything, I personally won't use it for touring looks very puny.

Of course, touring capabilities of a bike is a subjective matter as folks are touring on tvs star city, and on related bikes.

My pick of the lot will be hornet 160, it looks fresh and honda reliability and the superb CBS system.

But since you have already considered honda 160 the price is going to shoot approx 90k on.road for CBS version. Why not consider the AS200 it will suit all the requirements you have mentioned.

Cheers,
Sanjay

Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

One of the most important safety aspects in touring (or regular riding) is lighting. Honda has its quirks here! Tail lamp is DC, pilot lamps are DC but the head lamp is AC 35 watts.
One can't upgrade! No bigger halogens or HIDs without rewinding/DC conversion.

Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

Bro first of all thanks for detailed explanation... I know as200 have everything what i am looking but it lack in engine refinement... And bajaj is famous for bad quality

Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

Get that thing out of your mind. Post NS200 bajaj has come a long way in engine refinement.

How many failed NS200, AS200 or RS200 you have seen failing or any user complaining about bad quality on either of the pulsar triplets.

Yes as compared to japanese counterparts it lacks smoothness but not by a huge margin.

You can check respective threads of NS/AS/RS 200 and you will come to know that bajaj bikes have improved a lot better.

Only thing which screws a nice bike is the SVC and IMHO every brand is suffering from the same In INDIA. Be it Japs or Indian make.

To be very very genuine enough. I love the revving of NS200 a lot when I compare it to my CBR250.[emoji4]

Cheers,
Sanjay

Re: Partial bike for 70% daily use and 30% touring

Okies... ..........